EP365: Beth Blaney - The Secrets Of Successful Goal Setting

Michael Palmer: I did a lot of things wrong, but I still got here, which is kind of the one thing that I want to impress upon other people is that you're going to make mistakes and you're going to do the quote wrong thing. And being able to learn from that and correct moving forward is how you're going to build a business. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fun one. I can assure you that our returning guest is the CEO of BBA Bookkeeping, and she is a pure bookkeeping licensee, Beth Blaney. Welcome back to the show. Oh, yay. Thank you, Michael. I'm so excited to be back and honored, by the way. Oh, thank you. Well, it's our honor to have you back. And, you know, I really do want our listener to kind of get an idea of who you are and sort of your journey. You've been on the show before, but recently you, you sent an update email to, to myself and a few people here, and your monthly gross or your annual gross income goals are getting destroyed and crushed and smashed like crazy. And I'd love for you to tell your journey, kind of where you were and then where you are today, just to kind of give people that backstory if they haven't already heard your podcast from the past.

Sure, absolutely. Um, well, let's see, in 20— I'll go to 2021. I can't remember if we met in '21 or '22, but my, uh, in my business, the gross revenue in '21 was $430,000. In '22, gross revenue was $700,000. And this year our goal is the big $1 million. Wow, that's amazing. Oh, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. You know, we've had lots of, uh, guests on the show. I mean, we've been doing this since 2016. I think we're almost approaching 350 or more than that. I'm not even sure anymore. I never— I stopped counting a while ago. But every episode's interesting. But when I hear someone with, with the results like that, I mean, that's, that's a remarkable achievement. Thank you so much. It's, uh, it's very, very exciting. It is. And, and so let's go back to the very beginning. How did this even become an idea that you would have a bookkeeping